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Thanks for responding. Say for example that you assembled a rig from various items at a hardware store, such as a utility belt, shackles, swivels, straps, rope, etc., and put all of that together for use in a sport like water skiing or sailing. Would your rig be patentable as a unit, or...

My brother seems to think you can get a "new use" patent on any novel configuration of hardware and stuff which was manufactured by someone else. I'm skeptical, does that actually happen (or do people have to manufacture all of the stuff which comprises their nifty use of it)?